Re: Passing interface derived from IDispatch as a parameter

From:
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.atl
Date:
Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:34:17 -0500
Message-ID:
<ehoG0v4kKHA.5820@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl>
Igor R. wrote:

It's a responsibility of IDispatch implementation of IMySender =

interface. QI should be called during performing of call of

"notify" method.

 
I'm not quite sure I got the idea.
IMySender is an *argument* passed to notify(), so how IDispatch
implementation of IMySender can handle it? Or did you mean that
IDispatch of the client sink must call QI


Yes, that's what Vi2 meant.

- but how can it know what QI it needs?


The same way it knows that, when IDispatch::Invoke is called with a =
particular DISPID, it should call onNotify method (which involves =
unpacking VARIANTs and pushing appropriate parameters onto the stack in =
the right order). For example, by reading the type library.

How do you implement the sink on the client side? Do you use ATL, MFC, =
something else? Could you show some code?
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